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Thanks to the lovely blogger at perches in the soul (do check out her blog, if you don’t already follow her!), I just learned about something that’s going on this Saturday. It’s a public and global project called Life In A Day; we’re supposed to videotape some portion of our day and upload it to YouTube. Quoting from perches:
“YouTube is working with director Kevin MacDonald & producer Ridley Scott to create a documentary about 1 day in history and the 6 billion perspectives of humanity as we live it.”
Here’s another link about the larger project: here.
Cool, right? I’d love to see that documentary. I’ll toss in my few frames, won’t you do it too? What will I film? Maybe I’ll get my husband to videotape me knitting, or maybe we’ll go to Central Park (but there’s a good chance of thunderstorms Saturday). What would you film this Saturday?
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you’re welcome.
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Yesterday I got a lot of knitting done. I worked on my great-looking sock and got into the heel flap. I adore the pattern; it’s so thick and squishy, so 3-dimensional in a cool way, architectural, even. The socks must be warm, warm, warm.And the yarn – I totally love the yarn. I love the shifts in color, and the particular colors themselves….that brilliant turquoise, a deep olive, dark reds, light purples, rich browns. And this variegated yarn works great with this pattern, because the color contrasts are so interesting.
BUT. Oh, how there is a but. As Pee-Wee Herman said to Simone, sitting in the dinosaur’s head, “everyone I know has a big but.”*** For some reason I wasn’t going to have nearly enough yarn! After only 3 pattern repeats, I was more than halfway finished with one ball of yarn. I kept going back to ravelry, looking at other people’s project pages for this pattern knit with this yarn, and they always listed 2 balls of yarn for a pair of socks. And the pattern makes these 3D squishy socks….but mine were stiff like heavy cardboard. I kept going back to ravelry, looking at other people’s project pages for this pattern knit with this yarn, and my needles were the same size as theirs. I must have been knitting very tightly. I know I was, actually, because I was fighting the needles.
Desperately I decided oh what the hell, I’ll just make the tops kind of short. Three pattern repeats, that’ll be ok, right? But what if I still run out of yarn, and end up needing to buy another ball or two? Then I’d have too-short socks for no good reason. I forged ahead, trusting – other people got one sock out of one ball of yarn, other people used these needles, it all worked out, other times and other projects I thought it’s not going to work but then it did so just keep going, trust the project.
Two-thirds of the way down the heel flap I finally threw in the towel. I pulled the sock off the needles and pulled it on my foot, just to see. Yeah, it was stiff and cardboardey. I had clung too tightly to the yarn and needles. Kind of like life, during hard times – clinging too tightly is not going to help. I love it when knitting reinforces a life lesson. 
***here’s that clip from Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, where he says that hilarious line to Simone:
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And also – Chicago weather!
Lightning strikes three of the tallest buildings in Chicago at the same time! from Craig Shimala on Vimeo.
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So I’m just sitting on the couch, working, and all of a sudden I smell it – I smell the rain. And it’s blowing SIDEWAYS, at great force. And it’s thundering. Perhaps even lightning? So of course what does anyone think at that moment:
You’re welcome. I’m always doing this for you.
p.s. edit: the intense storm lasted for 2.5 minutes. it was an hour’s worth of storm squeezed into 2.5 minutes, i kid you not!
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Oh, Eddie Izzard, you make me so happy.
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Trapped mouse update: Silence from the ceiling. This is such terrible news, you have no idea. I see face masks and gagging in our olfactory futures. In response to Pip‘s comment on my building a better mousetrap post below, in which she reminded me of Tom and Jerry, I (being a very old person) remembered Pixie and Dixie, a pair of mice who were always outsmarting Jinx the Cat – featured regularly on the old Huckleberry Hound Show. Even though they always got away from him, Jinx always said “I love meeces to pieces.”
I searched YouTube and found this cartoon…..perfectly perfect for me and this blog, because it’s about Cousin Tex coming to visit.
Happy Father’s Day to anyone with a dad, or a husband who’s a dad!
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Do you remember this? I always loved the character. I tried to post it on Luscious, but it’s a wordpress.com account so this doesn’t work. I’ll just share it here:
So funny! It was so sad when and how he died. My day will be full of thinking about my daughter Marnie, because I’m trying to finish her wedding dress, and work on her shawl. But that doesn’t mean I’m not also thinking about my other daughter Katie, my other daughter Anna, and my darling son Will. Hi y’all.
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It’s not all parades and cemeteries, you know:
I didn’t get much knitting done today, or anything else other than work. Boo. But we did eat some mighty fine pizza.
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This is funny, coming on the heels of my last post, I know. But really, just get yourself ready because you’re about to be very very happy. I found this through Roger Ebert’s wonderful twitter feed (follow him, you’ll be happy about that too!):
You’re welcome.
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The 1984 movie Ghostbusters opened in the NY Public Library, so Improv Everywhere made this move:
I wish I’d participated!
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Do you like very sweet and beautiful harmony? Two girls with voices that mesh so softly and beautifully? Guitar? Ukulele? Feist? (of course you like Feist, 1234, Mushaboom, So Sorry, Sea Lion Woman, Inside and Out, My Moon My Man, Sesame Street for heaven’s sake!)
OK, these girls are not Feist, of course, but they’re singing one of her songs and I have now listened to it 7 times in a row. I place it here so I can always find it, and I hope it makes you feel the same sweet happiness:
I love those girls.
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You’ll have to decide which is which:
The thrill of knitting, sung by the Doozers on Fraggle Rock:
And it’s really too bad I can’t embed this video because if you saw even a single frame, you’d click through to watch. So please take my word and at least give it a try: Janelle Monae (ft. Big Boi) singing Tightrope. When Marnie was here last week, I thought we’d watched it on YouTube but it’s not there now. Thank you Marnie for introducing me, and you’re welcome, to anyone who clicks through and finds a new true musical love.
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remember the guys who did that great video with treadmills? check this out:
Watch the whole thing – it made me laugh out loud a number of times, and feel happy to be alive.
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I’m sorry, this has nothing whatsoever to do with knitting, but Gaga has me again. I couldn’t stop watching Bad Romance for weeks and weeks, nearly wore a groove in my iPod listening to the song to the exclusion of everything else. The video, oh the video.
And now: Telephone. Pure Lady Gaga wonder.
Delicious torture. Why do I love her so? I’m a 51-year old overly-serious woman. Must be something in my coffee.
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